Christian Lunet de La Malène, (born 5 December 1920 in Nîmes

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 and died 26 September 2007), was a French

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 and European

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 politician

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. He was a member of the UDR party.

He served as the French Minister of Scientific Research and Atomic and Space Questions from 1968. Prior to that he served as a Member of the European Parliament

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, including acting as the head of the Progressive Democrats group.